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The Heppner Gazette
Issued Thursday Morning.
Warnock & Micliell.
Entered at the Postofflce at Heppner Oregon, as
second-class matter.
Thursday December 24, 1903
OPEN RIVER IIOW TO GET IT.
Major LaDgfitt's letter to Gover
nor Chamberlain several days ago
shows the Oregon Legislature hew
to bring about early construction of
the Celilo canal. The National
Government will begin construction
just as soon as it obtains groand
and right of way free of cost. Such
was the recommendation of the
Board of Government Engineers,
approved by the Chief of Eugineers
and the Secretary of War,
Here, then, is the opportunity
that has been long awaited. By
au expenditure of from 50,000 to
8100,000 the state of Oregon can
induce the United States to expend
1,000,000 for the long-sought open
river. If the Legistature of this
state could appropriate money for
a more profitable purpose, it has
never yet done so.
Oregon may labor through the
courts, state and Federal, to con
demn ground for the portage; it
may invest Slf.,000 in that enter
prise, and yet, when done, it may
find the portage of no utility, since;
Three-Mile Rapid.-, leading up to j
the lower terminus of the road, j
would not be navigable. The state j
does not provide meaus for retnov-
ing the obstructions in these rapids, j
The work devolves reasonably up- j
on the National Government. The
United States is lendy to perform ;
that duty. Its plans include re-j
moval of the obstructions. And it '
doubtless would make Three-Alile
IJapids navigable whenever it be- J
gan construction of the canal, inas- j
much as that is naturally the first!
1903 Nearing the End
The past year has been one of the most successful since we started
in business, and we extend our heartfelt thanks to our many patrons.
We wish you all a
MERRY CHRISTMAS-
-AND A
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Next year we will strive harder than ever to supply our customers
with latest and up-to-date line of goods and we solicit your patronage.
MINOR & COMPANY, HEPPNER
thing to be done,
The Legislature, by appropria
ting the required $50,000 or $100,-
000, would insure the earliest pos
sible completion of the waterway.
The War Department has means
to begin the improvement. It need
not wait for further Congressional
action before starting the work
Once begun, the improvement
would continue as all other Nation
al work authorized goes forward,
namely, by Congressional appro
priations as the improvement
would advance. It is believed by
the engineers that the canal could
be finished within four or five
years.
Without the appropriation by
the Oregon Legislature the open
ing of the Columbia may be de
ferred indefinite!'. Nor need such
action by the Legislature jeopard
ize the portage road. That road
will serve its purpose while the
canal is building. Portland by its
own energy kept open its highway
to the sea, and now the National
Government helps the more will
ingly. Oregou by the same energy
can open its highway to the sea.
Oregonian.
Weather conditions have cer
tainly been very favorable so far
this winter in Eastern Oregon.
With plenty of rain and mild
weather grass has made a good
growth and stock is in good con
dition, in fact much better than at
this time last year. While the
stockmen are being favored, the
farmers are also feeling good over
the good growing weather. Wheat
will get a good start. The new
year is approaching with good
prospects.
A young man in Chicago who:
woiked for a salary of 1.00 per
day, just to even things up stole
200 a day for a period of several
months. He was not a very cheap
man after all.
LEXINGTON NEWS.
Lexington, Dec. 23, 1903.
Born, Dec. 19, to J. R. Johnson
and wife, a son.
Nearly all the sidewalks ordered
by the council have been built.
Mrs. E. D. Leach is very sick.
She may go to the hospital at Port
land. The athletic club are preparing
to give an entertainment in the
near future.
Mrs. Jos. Burgoyne and children
will visit relatives near Roeeburg
during the holidays.
The home mission society expect
an excellent time at their enter
tainment Thursday evening.
A game of football between the
Heppner and LexiDgton boys will
be played here Christmas.
W. B. McAlister went to Hepp
ner Tuesday to anange for the
painting of the curtain for the
front of the stage in the Artisan
hall.
Washington stockmen are taking
steps toward the formation of a
state organization.
The North Yakima Light and
Power plant has been sold to East
ern capitalists for 500,000.
Mrs. W. M. Bilyeu, one of the
oldest pioneers of Linn county,
died Friday at Scio, aged S2.
Mrs. P. M. Gray, of Salem, died
Friday, aged 7S. She crossed the
plains from Iowa to Oregon in 1853.
The democrats of Washington
will not make the single tax a
plank in their platform this year.
Forty tons of raw silk valued at
'J00,0u0, is on the Indrapura from
China to Portland, for American
consumption exclusively.
A clerk in the cilice of an im
porting chemist in Chicago, has
received 9 per week for four
mouths, and during that time stole I
valuable goods of his employer to
the average value of 200 per day.
The early run of steel head sal
mon on the Lower Columbia is
very heavy and the price paid the
fishermen is four cents per pound.
Germany, Mexico and Japan are
installing their exhibits at St. Louis
the first foreign countries that
have reached that stage with their
exhibits.
W. VV. Cotton, of Portland, has
just been appointed a regent of the
Oregon Agricultural College, to
succeed Benton Killin, whose term
has expired.
Butler, Pa., has 18,000 inhabi
tants, of whom just one-tenth
either have typhoid fever now or
have had the disease within the
past six weeks.
As a result of French interdic
tion of religious orders, and sec
ularization of their property, G,000
monks and nuns have gone to Eng
land, 1,800 to the United States
and 1,100 to Canada.
Travelers over the Trans-Siberian
railway report a steady move
ment of Russian troops and muni
tions of war eastward into Man
churia, despite all denials on the
part of Russian officials.
The 50 largest postoffices in the
United States took in during Nov
ember last 5,402,5S0, an increase
of 7 per cent over November 1902.
The heaviest increase was at Los
Angeles, 25 per cent.
Fur dealers of Victoria, B. C,
who sent 14,000 sealskins to the
annual sales in London this month
received but 15.53 each this year,
compared to 27.50 one year ago, a
decline of about 15 percent.
Thirty citizens of Winn parish,
Louisiana, horsewhipped Peter
Warner, Reuben Brown and Ed
ward Warner, and compelled them
to leave the parish. The 00 citi
zens will now have to dig up 85,000
for each of the victims, by order of
the state supreme court.
&B0SHENS
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